Beyond the Sun - Chris Isaak
Beyond the Sun Image
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  • Summary: The singer-songwriter's latest release from Sun Records is a cover album of hit songs that were originally recorded by such artist as Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Jan 26, 2012
    100
    A 19-track behemoth of (mainly) Sun Records covers, executed so faithfully that they could have been mouldering in a Memphis vault for 50 years.
  2. BTS is a covers album recorded at and paying tribute to Memphis's Sun Studios, deploying tumbleweed guitar twang, and occasionally, the falsetto.
  3. May 31, 2012
    60
    Isaak, whose singing voice is naturally full and resonant, is most at home with the Presley tunes... but the Lewis and Perkins homages don't quite add up. [Jan 2012, p.91]

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